Do the Saints Have a "Different Jesus"?

Question:How can Latter-day Saints expect to be called Christians
when they believe in a "different Jesus" than taught in the Bible?
Paul warned about "another Jesus" in 2 Corinthians
11:4. He also told the members in Galatia to watch out for anyone, who
would preach "another gospel" (Gal. 1:6-9).

Modern detractors are in error when they accuse us of worshiping a Jesus
different than the one found in the Bible. Without question, we teach the
same Jesus as taught in the Bible. Perhaps there are those who teach a
counterfeit Jesus and a counterfeit plan of salvation, but it isn't the
Latter-day Saints.

Let us examine what we can learn about the "real" Jesus from the Bible.
Jesus Christ created the heavens and the earth (Col. 1:16) under the direction
of God the Father (Heb. 1:1-3). Jesus lived with the Father before this
earth life and prayed to his Father that he might return and have the same
glory with the Father that he had before the world was (John 17:5). Jesus
was foreordained from before the foundation of the world to be the Redeemer
of the world (I Peter 1:20). Jesus was and is the first born in the spirit
world (Col. 1:15), the only begotten son of God in the flesh, and the first
individual to be resurrected (Col. 1:15).

Jesus was born of Mary after the Holy Ghost came upon her and she was
overshadowed by the power of the Highest (Luke 1:35). He was thus called
the Son of God, the Only Begotten Son.

Our Savior prayed to the Father with these words, "Our Father which
art in heaven" (Matt. 6:9-13). Earlier at His baptism and later on the
Mount of Transfiguration, our Heavenly Father's voice, coming from Heaven,
testified that Christ was His Beloved Son (Matt. 3:16- 17, Matt. 17:5).

The Jesus of the Bible taught in the temple. The only record we have
of our Savior being truly angry and filled with indignation during his
mortal life was when the money changers made "his Father's house a house
of merchandise" (John 2:14-17).

In the Sermon on the Mount he counseled that we should let our alms
be in secret, and promised that our Father which seeth in secret himself
shall reward us openly (Matt. 6:4).

Jesus taught that we have to be righteous to enter into the Kingdom
of Heaven (Matt. 5:20), So that when He comes again "we shall be like him"
(1 John 3:2).

If we want to have eternal life we must "keep the commandments" (Matt.
5:48), he born of the water and the spirit (John 3:5), and endure to the
end to be saved (Matt. 24:13).

Jesus established a church and loved it and gave Himself for it (Eph.
5:25). He prayed that we might all be one in the same way as He and His
Father are one (John 17:23). While in the Garden of Gethsemane He subordinated
His will to the Father's when he prayed, "Father, if thou be willing, remove
this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done," (Luke
22:42). It was there that he shed "great drops of blood falling down to
the ground" (Luke 22:44).

Later, Jesus, who said His Father "is greater than I" (John 14:28),
carried His own cross and died on Calvary for you and me.

Jesus did "nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for
what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise," (John
5:19). Jesus did as the Father commanded him to do and say (John 12:49).

He rose from the dead on the third day. He appeared unto upwards of
five hundred people (I Cor. 15:4-8). His resurrected body was a physical
body. He ate with his Apostles after he was resurrected (Luke 24:39-43).

Jesus gave a free gift, even his atonement to all mankind so that in
"Christ all shall be made alive," (I Cor. 15:22). Through His grace, there
will be a resurrection of the just and the unjust and the books will be
opened and every man will be judged "according to their works," (Rev. 20:12,
13).

This Jesus, we as Latter-day Saints believe, is a distinct, separate
personage from the Father and was seen standing on the right hand of the
Father (Acts 7:55).

Jesus will come again. It will be the same Jesus (Acts 1:11), with his
same immortal, resurrected body. "One shall say unto him, What are these
wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded
in the house of my friends" (Zech. 13:6).

Another Jesus? There is no salvation in any other Jesus than the one
clearly taught in the above Biblical references. This is the Jesus that
we, as Latter-day Saints, believe in. Latter-day Saints agree with Paul
in Galatians. If someone teaches a Jesus who saves a sinner without his
doing the will of his Father which is in heaven (Matt. 7:21), a Jesus who
requires no righteousness, no sacrifice, and no baptism for the remission
of our sins, a Jesus who is not now a resurrected being, possessing a glorious
physical, tangible body, a Jesus who does not appear today to men and women,
a Jesus who will not send mighty angels to the earth, a Jesus who will
not open the heavens for his children today as he did anciently, then truly
the preacher of this false Christ should be "accursed."